re: #108 stabby

Arguing over whether ancient religions have pleasing moral aesthetics isn’t actually important unless you believe that morals should come from religion.

My opinion is that taking advice on how to live from books that are thousands of years old is as ridiculous as taking medical advice from books that are out of date.

in about 80 BC or so, as the old story goes, a pagan king visited rabbi hillel and told him he would convert to judaism if hillel could explain it while standing on one foot

the rabbi stood on one foot and said:

“don’t do unto others what you wouldn’t have done unto yourself. that is the whole of the law and the prophets.

the rest is commentary”

good enough for me